Educating Autonomous Vehicle Technicians

明尼苏达州的Riverland社区学院（RCC）是汽车服务卓越教育基金会的所在地，该基金会拥有经过认证的汽车服务技术项目，已经为该地区服务了几十年。为了满足对在驾驶辅助和自动驾驶汽车方面具备适当技能的汽车技术人员的需求，RCC将在学生完成学术课程并进入劳动力市场时改善他们的成果。该项目将培养具有高级驾驶辅助系统（ADAS）和自动驾驶汽车（AV）专业知识的汽车技术人员。该项目将利用最近翻新的空间，包括一个30,000平方英尺的建筑。该项目将提供专业发展，采购必要设备，修改现有课程，并增加新的课程，以提高当前和未来获得自动驾驶汽车技师高级证书的汽车技术人员的技能。在四个学期的课程中，学生将参加包括AV和ADAS维修和维护的基本主题的培训。利用新的和现有的关系，该项目将建立一个咨询委员会，以确保技能在课堂和工作场所之间的转移。教师将与全国各地的学术合作伙伴以及合作的汽车自动驾驶技术项目和中心合作，开发和调整与ADAS和AV相关的课程。该项目将使该计划更具适应性和响应快速发展的行业需求，并将对技术先进的学生更具吸引力。通过有针对性的外展，该项目将吸引服务不足的人群，以提高汽车技术劳动力的意识，并增加其多样性。该项目由先进技术教育计划资助，该计划侧重于为推动国家经济的先进技术领域培养技术人员。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Riverland Community College (RCC) in Minnesota is the home of an Automotive Service Excellence Education Foundation with an accredited Automotive Service Technology Program that has served the region for several decades. To meet the need for automotive technicians with appropriate skills in driver assistance and autonomous vehicles, RCC will improve outcomes for students as they complete their academic programs and enter the workforce. This program will graduate Automotive Technicians with Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle (AV) expertise. The project will leverage a recently renovated space that includes a 30,000 square foot building. The project will provide professional development, procure essential equipment, modify existing courses, and add new curriculum that will advance the skills of current and future automotive technicians with an Autonomous Vehicle Technician Advanced Certificate. Over the course of four semesters students will participate in training that will cover essential topics in AV and ADAS repair and maintenance. Utilizing new and existing relationships, the project will establish an Advisory Board that will ensure the transferability of skills between the classroom and the workplace. Instructors will develop and adapt curriculum relevant to ADAS and AV in cooperation with academic partners and collaborating automotive ATE projects and Centers across the country. This project will make the program more adaptable and responsive to rapidly evolving industry needs and will have more appeal to technologically advanced students. Through targeted outreach, the project will engage under-served populations to promote awareness and increase the diversity of the automotive technology workforce. This project is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program that focuses on the education of technicians for the advanced-technology fields that drive the Nation's economy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.